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Ask HN: What should a user know about how HN moderation works in practice?
It seems I am in some kind of shadow ban, but I just realized it. I am not even sure it's the case, when it started or what was the reason. Never got a hint it could happen. Is there some process to get out of the purgatory, or to check what caused it, or even only a way to confirm it's effectively the case ?
I am asking here just to understand from others experience. And I am just wanting to know what I should know, nothing more ( I don't think it warrants more than that).
- themodelplumber 5y agoWhat are the symptoms of your kind-of-shadow ban?
- dekervin 5y agoI made a submission. Then I went outside on an errand and checked there to see if there was some comments. I couldn't find the post via search or in "new posts". Thinking of an error, I checked my profile without logging in and couldn't find the submission. But when I came back home, I could still find the submission on my profile while logged in. I guess that's is some kind of shadow ban ?
- _Microft 5y agoYou are not shadow-banned from what I can tell. Your lists of submissions and comments seem fine. There is a particular submission that is [dead] which makes it look like it was automatically tagged by the system.
- greenyoda 5y agoYeah, it looks like the domain huffpost.com is banned.
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- dekervin 5y agoThanks for the info. The [dead] tag doesn't show up for me, so I don't have any way to learn and correct my future behavior, if that's indeed the reason. It's actually ironic in that case since I specifically chose what I thought was a reputable source as I didn't want the conversation to be derailed by stupid arguments veering into conspiracy territory; silly me :) . I should update my prior on the reputation of that source. (Edit: the original comment I replied to was a bit different, the structure changed while I was writing my reply)
- aaaaaaaaata 5y agoConspiracy theory territory. Which shouldn't be a problem.
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- dekervin 5y agoOh, thanks for that info. That's what I meant by things "I don't know that I don't know" :) . That reason didn't even cross my mind. It would be useful if there was some kind of central place to learn about various "unexpected" behavior of HN, maybe something crowdsourced. I am just writing it down here since you have probably more experience !
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- grzm 5y agoRead the guidelines (which include the admonition "Please don't post on HN to ask or tell us something. Send it to hn@ycombinator.com."), and contact the mods using the Contact link in the footer. https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html